Re: Remote desktop Debian -> ChromeBook
Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> writes:
> Would perchance somebody here have already investigated a similar need
> and be able to tell which solutions are the most promising in terms of
> reliability and user experience.
I've mostly used VNC and x2go for Windows-to-Linux and Linux-to-Linux.
VNC was and is:
- Solid and we actually use it at work too.
- Limited in the number of mouse buttons at some point to five, minor
but annoying. At the time I was used to 7.
- In VNC you run a desktop in the remote end so that needs to be
configured and maintained. I'm not a fan of this since it's usually
just a small handful of apps I want to run.
x2go was:
- Slow to connect.
- Reconnects from another machine were a hit or miss, mostly miss.
So it really wasn't "screen for GUI apps" although that would've
been useful.
- Keyboard mappings via xmodmap were sometimes ignored.
- It didn't have the mouse button limitation of VNC.
- It has a mode where it presents a list of apps on the remote machine
so don't need to setup a desktop, can just start the app you want.
I don't know if my little gripes about x2go are valid today, I now use
it occasionally from Windows to Linux. Certainly the connection is slow
to form even in a LAN.
xpra I've tried some years ago but the documentation wasn't very clear
to me. Especially how to resume a session. Haven't looked in a while.
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